RSSIt’s like the
the Byzantines worked it out Slavs likes nothing better than to fight each other.
So you suggest we keep pushing them harder until their nuclear weapons hit us?Replies: @Slavjansk
Russians are all bluster on this. We’ve crossed dozens of their “red lines” to date in this war, and they haven’t done shit.
Bad idea
Back in the old days the Jews claimed to be Germans
Comments like the one you provided have an important and helpful signaling effect to other readers because they effectively concede – but try to distract from – your inability to refute my claims. This is not unusual; for instance, the other day (May 30) a commenter with a handle that rhymes with crayon (reminds me of kindergarten) attempted to divert with a completely unrelated remark about the surf in Eilat, in which "he" expressed "his" fantasy that I was a surfer; but you merely came up with an imaginary progression from calf to ox. How would you know – are you a cow? According to your imagination, was I a big bad bull in between?Replies: @ariadna, @Pierre de Craon
"...idiotic lies ..."
… reminds me of kindergarten …
Did he graduate, I wonder?
… a completely unrelated remark about the surf in Eilat, in which “he” expressed “his” fantasy that I was a surfer …
The fool’s self-importance is so impenetrable that he can’t even see when he and it are being mocked.
In sum, being accused by this fraud of an attempt at diversion is nothing to be ashamed of. Diverting readers’ attention from his transparent lies and self-important posturing is an inherently virtuous act.
That's not true. The books section of the May 5, 1990 edition of The Times consisted in two pages (p.36-37). Icebreaker was the object of a regular column occupying part of page 37 (there were 5 other reviews on that page alone). You can check it for yourself in the following link:
In 1990, the still magisterial Times of London devoted nearly the whole of its books section to a highly-favorable discussion of Icebreaker, a newly published book whose potentially seminal importance was fully recognized and emphasized by the reviewer:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267699366_The_Chief_Culprit_Stalin's_Grand_Design_to_Start_World_War_II
The newspaper reviewing it was the yet magisterial Times, whose literary editor had given over to me almost the whole of the biweekly books page to do justice to a work, as I had told him, of outstanding importance.
That’s not true. The books section of the May 5, 1990 edition of The Times consisted in two pages (p.36-37). Icebreaker was the object of a regular column occupying part of page 37 (there were 5 other reviews on that page alone). You can check it for yourself in the following link:
Hmmm… You’re entirely correct. I didn’t realize that the old edition of the Times was online, so I had just relied upon the later 2010 statement of Navrozov, who had been the reviewer:
The newspaper reviewing it was the yet-magisterial Times, whose literary editor had given over to me almost the whole of the biweekly books page to do justice to a work, as I had told him, of outstanding importance.
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Chronicles-2010apr-Navrozov.pdf
Since almost twenty years had gone by, it’s hardly surprising that Navrozov’s recollection had gotten a little garbled.
Also curiously, even the wording of that paragraph is similar to yours; where Navrozov writes “yet magisterial”, you write “still magisterial”.
I’d cited and linked his 2010 retrospective in my own original 2018 article, and when I glanced it again a couple of days ago, I’d found his mention of the “still magisterial” Times sufficiently compelling that I’d used it in my own article.
I read the Preparata book a few years years ago and was *extremely* skeptical of its analysis as I explained in a long 2019 comment:
Nobody has mentioned it, so I will – there is a thesis by Guido Preparata that the Anglo-American ethnic bankers calculated the industrial output of the future anti-Hitlerian coalition and pushed Hitler to war they knew he would be unable to win and destined to lose.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-understanding-world-war-ii/?showcomments#comment-3488251Replies: @Slavjansk
Well, I ordered a copy of the Preparata book, and read it. I hate to say it, but he comes across as a total conspiracy-crank and a crackpot.
The book significantly references the short earlier Antony Sutton book on Wall Street/Hitler, which I’d brought a couple of years ago, so I dug it out and finally read it. Sure enough, Sutton also comes across like a conspiracy-crank and a crackpot.
I’m certainly not saying these books are totally worthless since they gather together lots of interesting references. But the candor and/or judgment of the authors is so dreadful, I just don’t think I can trust them on anything at all.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed about WWII conspiracy-cranks is that they’re usually utterly, *utterly* terrified of discussing the Jewish role in promoting the war, even though (as I cited in my article) the private statements of Chamberlain and numerous other key players put Jewish influence at the absolute center.
For example, neither Preparata nor Sutton have any entry for “Jews” in their detailed index, with Sutton for safety’s sake, even avoiding any index entry starting with the letter “J.” So you write a “conspiracy” book about Wall Street, Hitler, and WWII and have no index entry for “Jews”—ha, ha, ha. Quite a number of the key individuals Sutton mentions were Jewish, but you’d never know it from Sutton’s book.
Sutton also repeatedly mentions Hitler’s diabolical plan to conquer the entire world. Hmmm…
Meanwhile, Preparata focuses on the diabolical plot of the British elites to destroy Germany. Okay. But instead of simply attacking Germany when it was almost totally disarmed and helpless in the 1920s, they plotted to build up a very powerful German military under Hitler, and *then* start a war (and get defeated in 1940!) presumably because that was much more “challenging.”
Similarly, everyone knows of Parvus, the Jewish Marxist from Russia, whom the Germans used to provide heavy financing to Lenin’s Bolsheviks in hopes of promoting a revolution. The plan succeeded, and with their Russian allies in revolutionary turmoil, the British almost lost the war to Germany. Okay. But based on zero evidence, Preparata claims that Parvus was actually a *British* agent, who tricked the Germans into funding the Bolshevik Revolution and thereby almost winning the war. Those diabolical British!
Preparata also seems to believe that during the 1920s and 1930s, the British elites and the top Soviets were secret allies, both cooperating to build up Hitler’s military machine so as to better destroy Germany. He also believes that all the top British figures who seemed to be pro-German or friendly towards Hitler, from Edward VIII on down, were actually part of a diabolical anti-German British plot. Although everyone thought that Churchill and Chamberlain were bitter adversaries, they were actually secretly working together to destroy Germany by building up the German military into the strongest in the world.
I could provide a very long list of Preparata’s additional crackpottery, but it just isn’t worth it.
I think I’ve heard that the LaRouchies always claimed that there was a secret British conspiracy currently running the world, so I’d guess that Preparata sold lots of his books in those circles.
Are you trying to rewrite history.
This is an excellent example of someone to ban Mr Unz. He just started today and made a dozen short childish troll comments.
Your problem is you are too stupid to realise you are an idiot.
Rope a dope
It seems to me it’s like late stages of the Soviet union. A Gerontocracy . No longer in charge of reigns of power. Today an American Yeltsin gonna stand on top of a tank and call the whole show off.
Gonna drag Elon’s Puppy nose through his shit in aswitz?
Were you in “Israel” to witness the damage? Do you get that “Israel” arrests anyone who records footage of such attacks? Do you understand that “Israel” like its American overlord refuses to give its enemies any credit?
Remember Soleimani? Did you know that Iran assassinated every single “Israeli” officer involved in that murder? Iran doesn’t brag about its covert operations, unlike Zionists who revel in genocide, bloodshed, rape, and child murder. The Iranians are human beings. The Zionists are fucking monsters.
And because Iranians are human beings, they don’t talk about all the Zionists they’ve killed in retaliation for various Zionist crimes against Iran. And the “Israelis” don’t want to give Iran any credit so they STFU about their high officials and Mossad operatives getting executed by Iran. Like how the US invented the term “traumatic brain injury” to describe actual soldiers killed by Iranian missiles.
Funny how every time an Iranian missile falls on US service members, no one ever dies. But plenty of “traumatic brain injuries”.
I like the debate on Zero Hedge.
It’s the same all the time .
Jews debates the Jews about Russia or Iran.
Good times.
He does sound Armenian.
Aragchi and the rest of the Pezeshkian gang are completely irrelevant and powerless at this point. The IRGC and Iranian military have effectively taken over the government. The “reformists” have completely lost all credibility with the public and I can’t imagine they will ever be taken seriously again.
Who is talking about the Chermans?
I wanna see Trump stand on top of a ot tank July 4
We could have presented a united front.
More likely a Masada situation.
Replies: @Slavjansk, @Anglo Mark
Washington sanctions ICC judges over Gaza genocide probe
Four judges were targeted for authorizing investigations into US and Israeli war crimes, as Washington escalates its campaign to cripple the court
JUN 6, 2025
On 5 June, the US government imposed sanctions on four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges over their role in investigations into war crimes by US and Israeli forces.
The US State Department said the sanctions freeze any assets the judges hold in the country and ban them from any transactions involving US citizens or institutions, cutting them off from the US financial and legal system. This includes a ban on US banks, companies, or individuals from sending money, offering services, or cooperating with the judges through international bodies.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions in a written statement, accusing the ICC of overstepping its authority and threatening the sovereignty of the US and Israel.
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https://thecradle.co/articles/washington-sanctions-icc-judges-over-gaza-genocide-probe
Help my fellow moron my IQ is 60.
The Ancient Greeks had a name for this:
This is a key moment in the Pentagon’s 20-year plan for “global full-spectrum dominance”: a unipolar world in which the US is unconstrained by military rivals or the imposition of international law. A world in which a tiny, unaccountable elite, enriched by wars, dictate terms to the rest of us.
Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ˈhaɪbrɪs/),[1] is extreme or excessive pride[2] or dangerous overconfidence and complacency,[3] often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.[4]
Hubris, arrogance, and pretension are related to the need for victory (even if it does not always mean winning) instead of reconciliation, which "friendly" groups might promote.[5] Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer collateral consequences from wrongful acts. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments, or capabilities.
Replies: @Slavjansk
The term hubris originated in Ancient Greek,[6] where it had several different meanings depending on the context. In legal usage, it meant assault or sexual crimes and theft of public property,[7] and in religious usage it meant emulation of divinity or transgression against a god.[8]
Wikipedia "Hubris"
Three more levels after hubris.
According to the nut job Netanyahu, since 1992 Iran has been weeks away from acquiring atomic bombs 💣I would have thought (33) years would be plenty of time to get the job done… wouldn’t you? 🤔…
And your source from the ICC that the warrants were revoked, since the ICC publishes revocations of warrants is . . . ?
Wrong! The warrants were ruled to be issued erroneously and I believe have been rescinded.
But this audience doesn’t need facts, so no worries. Carry on…
Try to keep up with the news. The warrants are “frozen” until Israel’s objections are reviewed.
And I will continue supporting my prediction that Israel will walk away from all ICC charges, including the absurd “crime of “genocide” based on the low numbers of Palestinians that have been killed and the inability to prove government INTENT to commit “genocide”.
But go ahead, continue to flagellate yourself! [lol]
In boost to Israel, ICC Appeals Court reverses lower court ruling
The decision sends the jurisdictional fight back to the ICC lower court to fully explore Israel’s jurisdictional objections to the arrest warrants.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
April 24, 2025In a potential historic comeback, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday reversed the November 2024 ruling of the ICC lower court against Israel’s jurisdictional objections to the issuing of arrest warrants for alleged war crimes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
The ruling is Israel’s first big win before the ICC since a win it obtained in 2012, and this after a string of losses in 2019, 2021, and November 2024 in which the war crimes proceedings against Israel continued to proceed from initial stages to interim stages, threatening to getting to even later stages, such as indictments.
The decision sends the jurisdictional fight back to the ICC lower court to more fully explore Israel’s jurisdictional objections to the arrest warrants and the ICC’s intervention into Israel’s conduct of the current Gaza war more generally.
Until the ICC lower court holds additional hearings on the issue, which could easily take a few months, and maybe even much longer, the whole case against Israel will be frozen.
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant technically have not been frozen, but given that the lower court could decide to cancel them after hearing Israel’s full jurisdictional objections, many countries that are members of the ICC may now feel more free to ignore the arrest warrants until a final ruling is reached.
…
http://jpost.com/breaking-news/article-851409
Not one of these 'many countries' is named and 'may' is not 'will', nor is there any evidence to suggest a single country 'may now feel more free to ignore the arrest warrants'. Nothing. By the by, dodo... I've got some even better news for you today. Ya ready? Good boy! Here it is:
...many countries that are members of the ICC may now feel more free to ignore the arrest warrants until a final ruling is reached.
Now go fetch me the evening paper, boy. You still need some training. 🕶️
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Must Be Released From ICE Detention, Judge SaysNEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered on Friday that Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released from immigration custody, a major victory for rights groups that challenged what they called the Trump administration's unlawful targeting of a pro-Palestinian activist.Khalil, a prominent figure in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel's war on Gaza, was arrested by immigration agents in the lobby of his university residence in Manhattan on March 8. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has called the protests antisemitic and vowed to deport foreign students who took part, and Khalil became the first target of this policy.After hearing oral arguments from lawyers for Khalil and for the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz of Newark, New Jersey, ordered DHS to release him from custody at a jail for immigrants in rural Louisiana.Farbiarz said the government had made no attempt to rebut evidence provided by Khalil's lawyers that he was not a flight risk nor a danger to public."There is at least something to the underlying claim that there is an effort to use the immigration charge here to punish the petitioner (Khalil)," Farbiarz said as he ruled from the bench, and punishing someone over a civil immigration matter is unconstitutional, he said.https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-orders-release-pro-palestinian-activist-khalil-2025-06-20/
Reality: Your understanding of the law is juvenile at best. First, the warrants were not determined to “be issued erroneously” and were never rescinded. The jurisdictional issue asserted by Israel officials merely delayed the proceedings – a common tactic employed by parties that cannot win on the merits. However, a world of difference exists between a delay in proceedings and a dismissal. Moreover, the warrants could never be “rescinded” as you state, only dismissed, but your status as a layman allows forgiveness. Second, claiming that the warrants were “frozen” after first claiming that the warrants were “issued erroneously” and were “rescinded” is an admission of being wrong! Say you are sorry and I will forgive you.If you cannot defeat your opponent on the merits, argue jurisdiction and threaten the judges - typical moves of the criminal regimes in the U.S. and Israel.Replies: @Kingsmeg
Meamjojo’s Reality: “Wrong! The warrants were ruled to be issued erroneously and I believe have been rescinded.” Meamjojo’ Reality: “Try to keep up with the news. The warrants are “frozen” until Israel’s objections are reviewed.”
They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
1. The U.S. military has never had ground troops (“boots on the ground”) in Iran, and likely never will.
2. The Iranian military has not, to my knowledge, deployed troops outside its own borders in >200 years.
The Chump evidently cannot read a map and does not know the difference between Iraq and Iran. I doubt he knows his own arsehole from a hole in the ground.
It did in Syria.Replies: @Passing by
The Iranian military has not, to my knowledge, deployed troops outside its own borders in >200 years.
Arguing that Trump is using his old 4-D (or is it 5 or 6-D?) chess strategy again? That he knows exactly what he's doing, and is getting ready to pull the rabbit out of the hat at any moment? Surprise the world...But really, that cope is wearing thin. I'm afraid that after so many blunders, missteps, and 'what the hell are we doing' moments, Occam would rather argue that the guy is just making it up as he goes along, with no coherent plan for achieving real-world results.But yeah. I guess he could be playing, 'Fool the Jew'. Tricking the people who are giving him hundreds of millions of dollars, payment for doing their bidding, cleverly fooling them into going along with an ostensible (but fake) plan. Just waiting for the moment when he'll stick it to them, when they are least expecting. Yeah... that's definitely got to be it! Q-Anon tier strategery for sure. LOLReplies: @Slavjansk
It certainly does appear that Trump was forced into a situation by team Judea. And team Trump cleverly pulled the rug out from under them.
Maybe it’s all whoBris
Non sequitur
Scarlet Pimpernel
Rusputij was a great hero
peasants united into a collective farms
Voluntarly you forget to mention! But only the survivors. Because 10-20 million peasants (the backbone of Russia) had their way in the afterlife not understanding this sweet words voluntarily into a collective farms
It was necessary in order to feed the country, as individual small peasants could not.
Obviously!! After less than 40 years of collectivization Russia turned form a heavy exporter of food into a net importer. The biggest country in the world with a low population density and one of the best soils in the world could not grow their own wheat! But never mind: Uncle Sam sold wheat for the workers – sons of “collectivists peasants” who instead paid with gold & hard currency.
Do you realize that at how wide are agricultural lands of Russia, all peasants had plenty of land to make big individual farms for every peasant families, including those killed and deported?
Communists never wanted that.
Absolutely! To be fair with them, communist didn’t wanted neither peasants living on their land. Communist didn’t discriminate anybody: they hated everyone including themselves with the same passion
Churchill and others agreed: they also wanted the Germans to defeat Russian Communists.
have you lost it?
Churchill allied with the genocidal Jewish communists to destroy Germany and the West.
I’m starting to wonder if you’ve lost your mind.
Comrade Zemlyachka was a wonderful, devoted, energetic woman. A Communist from the very beginning. She had nothing to do with the executions in Crimea. She was a local Communist Party leader. Nobody even asked her to kill or condemn to killing anybody. Crimea was infested by bandits and deserters, so I doubt she objected the so called Red Terror, but she took no part in it – it was not her job. And the number of executed men was 12,000, not the numbers you provide. I am not an expert – I rely upon evidence of Alexander Kolpakidi who is the expert. He and I are often described as “antisemites”, but one should be honest – this woman was innocent as charged. Russian language speakers may listen for one hour long delivery by Mr Kolpakidi here: https://vk.com/video-144904445_456245842
you forgot the /sarc tag, Mr. Shamir
Comrade Zemlyachka was a wonderful, devoted, energetic woman. A Communist from the very beginning. She had nothing to do with the executions in Crimea.
Poland haha
Hitler?
Romanoffs and Tsar Nicholas II weren’t jews.
Was Stalin wrong?